@kinesinmotors.bsky.social
Professor & scientist. Motors, mechanobiology, cytoskeleton. Protein structure/function; AI for scientific/medical advances. Posts are my own - to inform others in this moment of crisis for democracy. Tell your friends. Call your reps!! #STANDUPFORSCIENCE
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This wood “robot” can plant seeds in remote places.
Watch it drill into soil on #WorldSoilDay: https://scim.ag/48BaHBz
Watch it drill into soil on #WorldSoilDay: https://scim.ag/48BaHBz
December 5, 2025 at 11:37 PM
This wood “robot” can plant seeds in remote places.
Watch it drill into soil on #WorldSoilDay: https://scim.ag/48BaHBz
Watch it drill into soil on #WorldSoilDay: https://scim.ag/48BaHBz
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Adjuvants are compounds that boost immune responses, improving the ability of vaccines to elicit long-lasting immunity against infectious diseases
go.nature.com/4a02oS3
go.nature.com/4a02oS3
Aluminium is crucial to vaccines — and safe. Why are US advisers debating it?
RFK Jr’s vaccine advisory panel will be discussing the inclusion of adjuvants in childhood vaccinations this week. Here’s what’s at stake.
go.nature.com
December 7, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Adjuvants are compounds that boost immune responses, improving the ability of vaccines to elicit long-lasting immunity against infectious diseases
go.nature.com/4a02oS3
go.nature.com/4a02oS3
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National parks fee-free calendar drops MLK Day, Juneteenth and adds Trump's birthday
National parks fee-free calendar drops MLK Day, Juneteenth and adds Trump's birthday
The Trump administration, which has railed against what it describes as "woke" policies, removed MLK Day and Juneteenth from next year's list of fare-exempt days for visitors at dozens of national par...
www.npr.org
December 7, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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The low Reynolds number of cytoplasmic flow which makes mixing hard. In poster 359 at the CellBio2025 meeting Sunday Dec 7, Ulises Diaz shows how giant cells leverage reversible actin gel assembly to drive rapid mixing of cytoplasm, faster even than "chaotic mixing" schemes.
December 7, 2025 at 3:43 AM
The low Reynolds number of cytoplasmic flow which makes mixing hard. In poster 359 at the CellBio2025 meeting Sunday Dec 7, Ulises Diaz shows how giant cells leverage reversible actin gel assembly to drive rapid mixing of cytoplasm, faster even than "chaotic mixing" schemes.
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Flagellar length control in Chlamydomonas is a paradigm for organelle size regulation. In poster 155 at the CellBio2025 meeting Sunday Dec 7, Ximena Garcia Arceo uses Lithium, which increases intraflagellar transport, as a tool to probe how length-altering mutants work.
December 7, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Flagellar length control in Chlamydomonas is a paradigm for organelle size regulation. In poster 155 at the CellBio2025 meeting Sunday Dec 7, Ximena Garcia Arceo uses Lithium, which increases intraflagellar transport, as a tool to probe how length-altering mutants work.
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Flagellar length control in Chlamydomonas is a paradigm for organelle size regulation. In poster 163 at CellBio2025 Sunday Dec 7, I present work by Hiro Ishikawa using a synthetic biology approach to test a length-sensing model based on diffusion of kinesin in flagella
December 7, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Flagellar length control in Chlamydomonas is a paradigm for organelle size regulation. In poster 163 at CellBio2025 Sunday Dec 7, I present work by Hiro Ishikawa using a synthetic biology approach to test a length-sensing model based on diffusion of kinesin in flagella
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Astrocytes make up one-quarter of the brain. Nature reports how researchers are learning their value in shaping our behaviour, memory, and health. #Neuroskyence 🧪
The ‘silent’ brain cells that shape our behaviour, memory and health
Astrocytes make up one-quarter of the brain, but researchers are only now realizing their true value.
go.nature.com
December 6, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Astrocytes make up one-quarter of the brain. Nature reports how researchers are learning their value in shaping our behaviour, memory, and health. #Neuroskyence 🧪
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“People are feeling hopeful, and that’s a good thing”
Can GLP-1 drugs help cut cravings for cigarettes, alcohol, and opioids - as well as food?
go.nature.com/4pXfhBf
Can GLP-1 drugs help cut cravings for cigarettes, alcohol, and opioids - as well as food?
go.nature.com/4pXfhBf
Will blockbuster obesity drugs revolutionize addiction treatment?
Nature - Scientists are testing whether GLP-1 drugs can help to cut cravings for cigarettes, alcohol and opioids — as well as food.
go.nature.com
December 6, 2025 at 3:17 PM
“People are feeling hopeful, and that’s a good thing”
Can GLP-1 drugs help cut cravings for cigarettes, alcohol, and opioids - as well as food?
go.nature.com/4pXfhBf
Can GLP-1 drugs help cut cravings for cigarettes, alcohol, and opioids - as well as food?
go.nature.com/4pXfhBf
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Super excited to share that our paper is now out in @science.org. Lots of work, but also lots of fun getting this out.
Be sure to check it out!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Also, follow:
@huabin-zhou.bsky.social @juliamaristany.bsky.social @kieran-russell.bsky.social @rcollepardo.bsky.social
Be sure to check it out!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Also, follow:
@huabin-zhou.bsky.social @juliamaristany.bsky.social @kieran-russell.bsky.social @rcollepardo.bsky.social
December 4, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Super excited to share that our paper is now out in @science.org. Lots of work, but also lots of fun getting this out.
Be sure to check it out!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Also, follow:
@huabin-zhou.bsky.social @juliamaristany.bsky.social @kieran-russell.bsky.social @rcollepardo.bsky.social
Be sure to check it out!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Also, follow:
@huabin-zhou.bsky.social @juliamaristany.bsky.social @kieran-russell.bsky.social @rcollepardo.bsky.social
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So hard to watch well-established medical advances being discarded willfully
🧪 #MedSky
Hepatitis B vaccine guidance set to be rolled back for US babies: what the science says www.nature.com/articles/d41...
🧪 #MedSky
Hepatitis B vaccine guidance set to be rolled back for US babies: what the science says www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Hepatitis B vaccine guidance set to be rolled back for US babies: what the science says
A panel of US vaccine advisers voted to rescind a recommendation that all newborns should receive a hepatitis B vaccine at birth.
www.nature.com
December 6, 2025 at 6:59 AM
So hard to watch well-established medical advances being discarded willfully
🧪 #MedSky
Hepatitis B vaccine guidance set to be rolled back for US babies: what the science says www.nature.com/articles/d41...
🧪 #MedSky
Hepatitis B vaccine guidance set to be rolled back for US babies: what the science says www.nature.com/articles/d41...
💥 ⛸️ 🏆 🍃 Ilia Malinin
Grand Prix Final Gold Medal
Grand Prix Final Gold Medal
Ilia Malinin, in ‘brain-bamboozling’ skate, sets world record to win Olympic tune-up
In the last major international event before February's Olympics, the American Malinin kept his two-year unbeaten streak going.
www.nytimes.com
December 6, 2025 at 3:34 PM
💥 ⛸️ 🏆 🍃 Ilia Malinin
Grand Prix Final Gold Medal
Grand Prix Final Gold Medal
💥 ⛸️ 🏆 ‼️ Ilia Malinin - Grand Prix Final Gold
The QUAD GOD CAN'T BE STOPPED! 🥇😤
Ilia Malinin wins his third straight #GPFinal gold, beating his own world record free skate score by nearly 10 points!
Ilia Malinin wins his third straight #GPFinal gold, beating his own world record free skate score by nearly 10 points!
December 6, 2025 at 3:26 PM
💥 ⛸️ 🏆 ‼️ Ilia Malinin - Grand Prix Final Gold
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“This irresponsible and purposely misleading guidance will lead to more hepatitis B infections in infants and children.” Read our full statement by AAP President Dr. Susan J. Kressly:
www.aap.org/en/news-room...
www.aap.org/en/news-room...
December 5, 2025 at 7:15 PM
“This irresponsible and purposely misleading guidance will lead to more hepatitis B infections in infants and children.” Read our full statement by AAP President Dr. Susan J. Kressly:
www.aap.org/en/news-room...
www.aap.org/en/news-room...
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Day 3 begins our dive into #fluorscence #microscopy with a lab and lecture from none other than Dr. Wendy Salmon, @fishcscells.bsky.social, director of the Hooker Imaging Core @UNC. She teaches us about the fluorescence #light path, filters, and #fluorophores!
Apply here- bit.ly/49YQl7q
Apply here- bit.ly/49YQl7q
December 6, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Day 3 begins our dive into #fluorscence #microscopy with a lab and lecture from none other than Dr. Wendy Salmon, @fishcscells.bsky.social, director of the Hooker Imaging Core @UNC. She teaches us about the fluorescence #light path, filters, and #fluorophores!
Apply here- bit.ly/49YQl7q
Apply here- bit.ly/49YQl7q
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AQLM 2026 features an amazing selection of faculty who are truly experts in their fields. Their commitment to education and supporting AQLM make the course the outstanding experience it is, so we're going to highlight each of them over the next few weeks.
Apply now! bit.ly/49YQl7q
#microscopy
Apply now! bit.ly/49YQl7q
#microscopy
November 18, 2025 at 4:16 PM
AQLM 2026 features an amazing selection of faculty who are truly experts in their fields. Their commitment to education and supporting AQLM make the course the outstanding experience it is, so we're going to highlight each of them over the next few weeks.
Apply now! bit.ly/49YQl7q
#microscopy
Apply now! bit.ly/49YQl7q
#microscopy
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Under Trump, the NIH is giving fewer grants to fewer scientists. The grants awarded are smaller and scientists have less time to spend them.
Projects in cancer, diabetes, aging, neurological disorder, and more are going unfunded.
“Make America Healthy Again.”
Projects in cancer, diabetes, aging, neurological disorder, and more are going unfunded.
“Make America Healthy Again.”
The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine
A quiet policy change means the government is making fewer bets on long-term science.
www.nytimes.com
December 2, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Under Trump, the NIH is giving fewer grants to fewer scientists. The grants awarded are smaller and scientists have less time to spend them.
Projects in cancer, diabetes, aging, neurological disorder, and more are going unfunded.
“Make America Healthy Again.”
Projects in cancer, diabetes, aging, neurological disorder, and more are going unfunded.
“Make America Healthy Again.”
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NIH is in tatters. www.statnews.com/2025/12/04/a...
Trump has ‘shaken the hell’ out of the 80-year research pact between the government and universities. What now?
Trump has "shaken the hell" out of the 80-year research pact between the government and universities. What now?
www.statnews.com
December 4, 2025 at 7:22 PM
NIH is in tatters. www.statnews.com/2025/12/04/a...
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WSJ: A vaccine panel at the CDC voted to end a recommendation that newborns be given a first dose of hepatitis B vaccine. Scientists have credited it with helping drive down rates of hepatitis B infection, which can lead to liver damage, cancer and death.
#ProudBlue #Pinks #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice
#ProudBlue #Pinks #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice
December 5, 2025 at 6:57 PM
WSJ: A vaccine panel at the CDC voted to end a recommendation that newborns be given a first dose of hepatitis B vaccine. Scientists have credited it with helping drive down rates of hepatitis B infection, which can lead to liver damage, cancer and death.
#ProudBlue #Pinks #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice
#ProudBlue #Pinks #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice
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Breaking: After contentious debates and three failed attempts at a vote, a federal vaccine committee decided on Friday to end the decades-long recommendation that all newborns be immunized at birth against hepatitis B.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...
An End to Hepatitis B Shots for All Newborns
www.nytimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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Cells can hunt prey, solve mazes, and learn from past experience. Does this mean they can think, at some level? Find out more at our upcoming session on "Cell Behavior and Cognition" at the ASCB/EMBO #cellbio2025 meeting, Saturday 1-3 pm rm 115.
December 5, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Cells can hunt prey, solve mazes, and learn from past experience. Does this mean they can think, at some level? Find out more at our upcoming session on "Cell Behavior and Cognition" at the ASCB/EMBO #cellbio2025 meeting, Saturday 1-3 pm rm 115.
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CDC vaccine advisers delay hepatitis B vote amid confusion
CDC vaccine advisers delay hepatitis B vote amid confusion
After last-minute changes, members complained they didn't fully understand what they were voting on.
dlvr.it
December 4, 2025 at 9:10 PM
CDC vaccine advisers delay hepatitis B vote amid confusion
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A picture is worth a 1000 words. The birth dose of hepatitis B vaccines in the USA eliminated perinatally acquired hepatitis B infection from over 20,000 cases a year before the vaccine was introduced to <20 cases a year. The gaslighting by the current members ACIP is obscene, unethical and cruel.
December 4, 2025 at 5:28 PM
A picture is worth a 1000 words. The birth dose of hepatitis B vaccines in the USA eliminated perinatally acquired hepatitis B infection from over 20,000 cases a year before the vaccine was introduced to <20 cases a year. The gaslighting by the current members ACIP is obscene, unethical and cruel.
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To be very clear, Kennedy's team is messing with a vaccine which has led to a 99 percent drop in the incidence of hepatitis B, which kills, early and painfully, 25 percent of the people who get it as children. lnk.thebulwark.com/3Xt957M
RFK’s Anti-Vax Team Readies Its Next Moves
“Their game is, let’s really destabilize trust in the vaccine, and make people really anxious about it.”
lnk.thebulwark.com
December 4, 2025 at 3:00 AM
To be very clear, Kennedy's team is messing with a vaccine which has led to a 99 percent drop in the incidence of hepatitis B, which kills, early and painfully, 25 percent of the people who get it as children. lnk.thebulwark.com/3Xt957M
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Great summary of the Hepatitis B vaccination discussion at RFKJ's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) meeting today.
apnews.com/article/hepa...
apnews.com/article/hepa...
What to know about the hepatitis B shot — and why Trump officials are targeting it
A federal vaccine advisory committee this week is expected to discuss whether newborns should still get the hepatitis B vaccine — the first shot found to prevent cancer.
apnews.com
December 4, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Great summary of the Hepatitis B vaccination discussion at RFKJ's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) meeting today.
apnews.com/article/hepa...
apnews.com/article/hepa...
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My first ever time doing a podcast - part of “that’s absurd, please elaborate”, recorded live at the Bay Area Science Festival.
thatsabsurdshow.com
Discussing two topics- does saturable transport mean you can eat as much as you want? and what would happen if tardigrades were a lot bigger?
thatsabsurdshow.com
Discussing two topics- does saturable transport mean you can eat as much as you want? and what would happen if tardigrades were a lot bigger?
That's Absurd Please Elaborate
thatsabsurdshow.com
December 5, 2025 at 12:25 AM
My first ever time doing a podcast - part of “that’s absurd, please elaborate”, recorded live at the Bay Area Science Festival.
thatsabsurdshow.com
Discussing two topics- does saturable transport mean you can eat as much as you want? and what would happen if tardigrades were a lot bigger?
thatsabsurdshow.com
Discussing two topics- does saturable transport mean you can eat as much as you want? and what would happen if tardigrades were a lot bigger?